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Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new…
“We’ve all done it,” begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards.” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes, how female journalists in Washington snag their scoops. “I used to suck, screw, and jerk anything that moved just to get a…
Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…
http://youtu.be/qcls41KaMEs via After Hours – The 9 Creepiest Things Movies Portray as Romantic – YouTube.
Crash Override’s logo. Photograph: http://www.crashoverridenetwork.com/ A group of people targeted with online harassment have launched a support network aimed at helping others who find themselves in the same situation. The network, Crash Override, will go further than many previous attempts to help harassment targets, not only providing emotional support but also helping those affected interact…
8 Ways the Legal System Screws Rape Victims (Like Me) When I was 19, I got so drunk at a party that I passed out. I woke up in the middle of being raped. When I started to scream, he covered my mouth. I was confused, scared, a virgin, and thanks to TV and movies,…
Trigger warning for sexual abuse, stalking, rape, domestic violence and large-scale attacks by hate groups. Last Thursday, I criticized the Linux community for continuing to support and center a leader with a years-long, documented history of unrepentant abusive behavior, someone who has actively and systematically nurtured a hostile, homogeneous technical community, and someone who has…
Without any official group taking responsibility for this page, and with imageboard screengrabs showing jokes about its creation, we believe FSF is as much of a mean-spirited joke as media critic Shanley Kane says it is. cache hit 934:single/related:aff7ea81439932e4088551b75f744576 empty On Friday, following comments made by Linux legend Linus Torvalds about diversity in the open…
1. Mr and Mrs Granger of London were proud to say that they had a witch for a daughter. View this image › Warner Bros. Not that they said it much, or at all, to anyone. But they were proud all the same. 2. Proud, that is, until their daughter, Hermione, wiped all trace of…
In U.S. academia, fields that cherish sheer genius shun women By Will Dunham WASHINGTON Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:50pm EST Tweet Share this Email Print Graduates from Columbia University’s School of Journalism cheer during the university’s commencement ceremony in New York in this May 16, 2012 file photo. Credit: Reuters/Keith Bedford/Files WASHINGTON (Reuters) –…